. Camps in the Rockies [microform] : being a narrative of life on the frontier, and sport in the Rocky Mountains, with an account of the cattle ranches of the West. Camping; Hunting; Camping; Chasse. 176 Camps in the 11 It. hunted. On the contrary, however, it has often astonished me, how close to frontier settlements Bighorn will roara in winter, if they are not hunted or disturbed. I know, for instance, one place in Wyoming—an isolated chain of bad-land peaks, not more than 7000 feet over sea- level, and onlv twelve miles from a settlement of im- portance, where, in December
. Camps in the Rockies [microform] : being a narrative of life on the frontier, and sport in the Rocky Mountains, with an account of the cattle ranches of the West. Camping; Hunting; Camping; Chasse. 176 Camps in the 11 It. hunted. On the contrary, however, it has often astonished me, how close to frontier settlements Bighorn will roara in winter, if they are not hunted or disturbed. I know, for instance, one place in Wyoming—an isolated chain of bad-land peaks, not more than 7000 feet over sea- level, and onlv twelve miles from a settlement of im- portance, where, in December and January, Bighorn (no large heads) can be killed with certainty. An acquaintance, whom I happened to meet on the Union Pacific Express, on his return journey round the World, and to whom I disclosed the secret, sacrificed only three days, and, braving the Arctic cold, bagged his Bighorn in that tirae. But this is an exceptional case; for usually it takes weeks, if not months, of travel to get to the autumn quarters of Bighorn, many shooting- parties I have heard of spending months in the moun- tains without even seeing the tracks of one. In summer. Bighorn are very hard to find, at least in those portions of the W^est I know ; indeed from observations made during my last trip they seem to migrate during the hot months of the year to the highest and most inaccessible peaks. To judge from my experience, they descend to the bad- lands, their favourite autumn, winter, and spring ground, in September or October, after the first heavy snow- storm. In the Wind River chain there existed up to quite recent times, a very interesting and very little-known community of Indians, known as the " ; ° They lived very ^ One hears, frequently, very wonderful tales about these Sheep- taters ; one "authority" affirming that they hibernated like bear, their " winter sleep " lasting through the winter. So far as I can learn, they lived only iu the Wind
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